Mount Isa survey finds city overwhelmingly wants public school bus service
With no public school bus, 3,500 Mount Isa students dodge heatwaves and crime on their way to school. After decades of ...
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Mount Isa turns to wind, solar and gravity storage to save city as big mines close
The Mount Isa Future Ready Economy is designed to offer a future for a town that is facing 1,200 job losses from the closure of the Glencore mining operations. The roadmap lists 28 pathways and ...
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Barkly Mayor wants to partner with Isa
In a bid to initiate discussions on a potential partnership between the Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek and the city of Mount Isa, Barkly Regional Council Mayor Sid Vashist has visited Mount ...
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Flying whales, acid plant: Inside the $2.7bn bid to make Mount Isa great again
The Mount Isa council has also about $7 million from the State government in a transition fund designed to help explore non-mining solutions to the town’s impending difficulties, but council’s ...
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Announce it, and they will come: Mount Isa’s plan to expand
The Maltha Waru gallery is the first of its kind for the town, and was created to help tourists who were constantly asking where they could buy Indigenous art. Mount Isa landscape Kalkadoon Elder ...
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Growing number of men in outback mining hub of Mount Isa turning to yoga for mental health
Living in the outback Queensland mining centre of Mount Isa, Mr Butler is among many men ... about the mental toll of mining in an isolated town. "The working culture is taxing mentally and ...
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‘Diversify on steroids’: Mount Isa’s plan for a new, green economy
Mount Isa City Council has launched a bold plan to pivot the town’s economy towards green energy to boost jobs, get ready for CopperString, and fuel their mines with cheaper power. Mayor Peta ...